HFCC Year 1 Books Cost/Need

Veruka · Jul 29, 2008

Those will get you thru first semester. 2nd semester you will have to buy a couple of more, but you should be good with those. Oh, I almost forgot-- you'll also need Lehne's Pharmacology for Nurses as well.

rainorshine978 · Jul 29, 2008

You should buy them from half.com they are so much less expensive on that website. I bought all my books from there last semister and literally saved over $200.

mybrowneyedgirl, BSN, RN · Jul 29, 2008

Typhanie,

Did you buy older editions from www.half.com or the current ones?

I checked the prices for a few of them (current editions) and they were either a little more expensive or just slightly less. I had planned on going to half.com originally.

I could see it being a lot less expensive if you bought an older edition. I wonder if that would matter much? It seems like content rarely changes much.

WayneStateKatie · Jul 29, 2008

Try amazon.com too. Sometimes they have great deals. I got my lehne pharm book on there for 50 bucks (I think it's now gone back up to 55.17) and the bookstore was charging well over 80. I also got a great deal on the davis' drug guide and I always use the free super saver shipping....

Sometimes getting them there new on amazon costs less than bookstore used editions (I only like to do the same edition-- I personally have found it difficult to have older editions in the past. Sometimes chapters are moved around, info is added, and I just would rather spend the 15 extra bucks vs searching around and wasting time trying to find info in an older edition. You may not mind looking all over the book for the info though and could borrow a friends book to photocopy all the new added info if you need it. Personally I thought it was a waste of time and a pain in the butt).

rainorshine978 · Jul 29, 2008

Typhanie,
Did you buy older editions from www.half.com or the current ones?
I checked the prices for a few of them (current editions) and they were either a little more expensive or just slightly less. I had planned on going to half.com originally.
I could see it being a lot less expensive if you bought an older edition. I wonder if that would matter much? It seems like content rarely changes much.

All I did was copy the ISBN number that my college bookstore gave to me and pasted it in the search function on half.com. Whatever book came up I bought it. It worked for me, I didn't notice any difference when using it in class. Although I was using them for an online class as opposed to campus, not sure if that matters or not.

tonyal · Jul 30, 2008

I was looking at half.com a few days ago,and even using the ISBN I was getting older editions than what the school said they were using.

RN1982 · Jul 30, 2008

Try amazon.com and half.com for less expensive books. Stick to the needed books for your semesters, you don't need all that optional stuff.

tonyal · Jul 30, 2008

A friend gave me a ton of the optional books from a few years ago would I still be able to use any of those(once I am admitted?) I have a few of each of diagnosis, pharmacology, med surg,and so on basically a huge rubbermaid tub of nursing books.I have already started reading them.

RN1982 · Jul 30, 2008

I made the mistake of reading something I read in the textbooks and comparing it to something I read in Lippencott's. My study buddies would say "Katie, stick to the text book". The optional stuff is good for reference though.